Ruth is the default Second Life avatar shape and sometimes (hopefully, not often) you’ll find or see your avatar Ruthed¹. This happens when your avatar didn’t load properly or failed to load due to lag and/or due to other forms of Second Life problems.

It’s really freaky, specially for male avatars, seeing yourself with boobs. Ewwwww!

Now you can say goodbye to Ruth with Autoderuth by Dougal Jacobs. I found a post about it at Linden Lifestyles and thought that it’s a pretty nice tool to have since I sometimes also experience this Ruthing thing.

Autoderuth is a simple HUD which you have to wear and click to fix your appearance. Don’t be surprised if you are launched way up into the sky. According to Dougal Jacobs, “that’s how it works”. I don’t know the technicality or the science behind it but if it can fix my appearance or fix how I look to others then I guess being launched like a rocket up into the sky is not a big problem.

I’ve placed a copy at SLExchange for quick access but you can get an updated copy in-world at Linden Lifestyles HQ.

A Ruthed avatar will have a shape like this:

1. Ruthed means having the default Second Life shape